UP SIR: Nearly 3 crore names deleted from draft rolls; claims open till Feb 6, final list on Mar 6

NEW DELHI/ LUCKNOW: About 2.9 crore voters, making up 18.7% of UP's 15.4 crore-strong electorate astatine the motorboat of the state's SIR workout connected Nov 4 past year, person been struck disconnected the draught rolls published connected Tuesday.These voters person clip till February 6 to record claims and objections to get their names restored successful the last rolls, to beryllium published connected March 6. "After the door-to-door enumeration thrust crossed 75 districts and 403 assembly constituencies, 12.5 crore retired of 15.4 crore voters were retained," main electoral serviceman Navdeep Rinwa said.Based connected the district-wise draught elector lists, the percent of wide deletions successful 22 of UP's 75 districts exceeded the authorities mean of 18.7%.

Rinwa said 1.3 crore, oregon 8.4% of voters, were recovered to person permanently shifted from the state. Another 25.5 lakh, constituting implicit 1.6% of the electorate, were enrolled astatine 2 places. A full of 79.5 lakh (5.1%) voters couldn't beryllium traced portion 46.2 lakh (almost 3%) were dead. Over 7.7 lakh (0.5%) voters didn't instrumentality filled-in enumeration forms.

Lucknow reported the highest percent of deletions astatine 30%, followed by Ghaziabad (28.8%), Balrampur (26%) and Kanpur Nagar (25.5%).

In Lucknow, 5.3L of 12L names deleted are of voters who opted to displacement to their autochthonal places

Lalitpur had the slightest deletions astatine 9.9%, with Hamirpur (10.8%) and Mahoba (12.4%) conscionable behind."Over 1 crore (8%) retired of 12.5 crore voters either couldn't hint their lineage connected the rolls oregon their names weren't successful the 2003 SIR list. Such voters person been enactment successful the 'unmapped' class and volition beryllium issued notices successful the adjacent 31 days. These voters volition person to taxable 1 of 12 documents listed successful the notice," Rinwa said.During the enumeration phase, implicit 15.7 lakh radical submitted Form 6, meant for enrolment of caller voters.

These names, if valid, volition beryllium portion of the last rolls.

In Lucknow, astir 5.3 lakh of the 12 lakh names deleted from the draught rolls were of voters who opted to displacement to their autochthonal places portion 4.2 lakh couldn't beryllium traced.An authoritative said the precocious complaint of "permanently shifted voters" - astatine 8.4%, astir treble of Bihar's 4.6% - wasn't a surprise. He cited a Down to Earth survey successful 2021 that pegged the migration complaint for UP astatine astir 28.4%, doubly arsenic overmuch arsenic Bihar's 14.2%.The archetypal December 4 deadline for completion of enumeration extended doubly - archetypal till December 11 and past December 26 - aft it was recovered that a ample fig of voters were excluded from the draught rolls."The work day of draught rolls was fixed arsenic December 31, but fieldwork and ECI instructions to rationalise polling stations led to a delay," Rinwa said. Authorities volition process claims and objections till February 27.